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The meeting of the Center Film Seminar, entitled "Big Sport: Innovation vs.
Tradition," took place on February 27, 2013 at
the Center for Urban History Conference Room. The meeting included a
screening of Bennett Miller’s Moneyball (USA,
2011). The Film Seminar was part of the "Sports and the City: Person. Society. Ideology"exhibition at
the Center.

The film describes the
story of baseball manager Billy Beane. His team, the Oakland Athletics is going
through a rough patch and is forced to lose its best players. Chance causes
Beane to meet young economist Peter Brand, who has his own scheme for a perfect
game, based on mathematical calculations. Brand proposes to hire inexpensive
average players and use them according to the scheme. However,
finding the right innovative solution is only the first step in tradition-bound
big sport. Brand’s ideas only convince Billy Beane, and the new friends are faced
with the difficult challenge of proving their ideas in practice.